At a busy airport, say YYZ, if everyone would now report they're requiring 160 to the marker, then a 56 arrival/hr rate may become a 52 or 54 rate. If the new rate has to be sustained for several hours, then there will be more flow restrictions if the demand is higher than the target rate. As an arr...

People have been making this overtime protection claim since the 1980's
More than 35 years later, nobody has come out with any concrete evidence of it.

99 times out of 100, the claims were made by a bitter ATC trainee who didn't qualify.

Anybody know if the perp was caught? I never saw any follow-up.

Just bumping this thread. Any further news?

I saw an interview with local Sherrif who reported one engine was found several miles from crash site.

...unless you’re the chump who doesn’t think anything is going to happen to him, and he ends up dead sticking onto the Autoroute. I’m sure the guy who fueled him up that morning didn’t want to deal with him, nor the dispatcher at the flying club who signed him out, nor the 15-25 emergency responders...

Don’t most accidents happen at home? :smt017 Besides... none of these restrictions have included risk mitigation strategies like you’d think they would in order to lower the healthcare burden. Like not using power tools or eating scotch mints or having a shower. Actually, in BC we have been asked t...

“Couple that with the hassle factor of looking up the phone number and or trying to dial, while flying, in the already uncertain situation of not being able to raise anyone on the radio” Agreed. So much easier to deal with the opposite end landing and runway excursion Do you really think a student ...

“Couple that with the hassle factor of looking up the phone number and or trying to dial, while flying, in the already uncertain situation of not being able to raise anyone on the radio”

Agreed. So much easier to deal with the opposite end landing and runway excursion

In a separate thread, we read about a King Air crew who, faced with an electrical failure, elected to contact the Control Tower by cellphone. Perhaps on return from a cross-country with a com failure, the BFC student could have at the very least phoned the flying club or YYZ ATC to get altimeter, lo...

PlanePaully: most likely there won’t be a RA. YYZ 24L/R traffic doesn’t begin descent below 3000 til about 7-8 miles final, well past KZ. The 1000 ft vertical separation needed is for wake turbulence. It is assumed that KZ circuit traffic is of the light weight category while YYZ 24L/R ILS traffic w...

Civet, I agree wholeheartedly with everything you wrote. My personal guideline for initial checkout is to budget a gift equal to one day's overtime. Over a 25-35 year career, it's a drop in a very large bucket. For subsequent checkouts I buy a bottle of the nice stuff. My last checkout was shared be...

My unit (DXB approach) requires us to re-validate Mode C on initial contact, since our Area Control Centre feeding us works on a different radar system. We also check aircraft type on initial contact since some operators are famous at last minute equipment changes. PITA!

My best advice to you is to not take tax advice from anyone on an aviation forum. All the major accounting firms i.e. Price Waterhouse, BDO, have accountants that specialize in international taxation. They wil be more expensive than your average accountant, but you want someone who can effectively r...

Update: Both sold. Thanks everyone for your interest.


Two lightly used headsets for sale:

Bose X: just over 100 hrs use
Lightspeed Zulu: approx 10 hrs use

Both in perfect condition with cases

$550 each or $1000 for both. YYZ area

289-521-0147 Kevin
tropicalamigo@yahoo.ca

Here go the start of the "what ifs" What if aircraft on ground has passengers who will miss their connections at their destination with any further delay; What if aircraft on ground faces night-time restrictions into destination airport (ie CYTZ); What if crew on aircraft on ground is also thinking ...

With most control zones at a 5nm radius doesn't this become a little too restrictive?

So you arrive into YYC airspace and you're number 3 in sequence. No airborne delays, burning fuel in a hold. Sounds like a flow control system that is working properly.

Betcha AA was JFK ATC's bitch for the rest of that day.

Language evolves. Deal with it. LOL

...when "Maestro" can't get you a villa in Tuscany, then try "Captain"

Somebody take this thread outside and shoot it in the head.

Anyone care to guess the cost of diverting, say, to Iceland? Fuel, landing fees, missed connections, fresh crew? Anyone want to take a stab at a figure?

Of course not. Then again I wouldn't expect an instructor to fly with someone, knowing they had two hour's sleep either. All I'm saying is that sh*t happens, and if the flight school wants to be compensated for unforeseen occurences, then maybe the student should be also.

Next time they cancel on you last-minute due to an instructor no-show or a mechanical, charge them a fee. Your time is worth something too. BTW how much was the fee they charged?